NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1890, 27 October 1913, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

HARBOUR BOARD APPOINT PATROLS. , • '

For tho {mrposo of keeping a watch on all tfoir property ill© Harbour Board lias appointed, teii gangs of six men each for patrol duty about tho wharves. At a conference between tho chairman, tlio secretary, tlio wharfinger, and tlio engineer 011 Saturday morning the various men were chosen for tlioiv respective duties. All tho wharf telephones have been connected tip and tlio chief man in each Rang rings tip to, report every liour. Thomen ad duty for eight hours and have 16 off. This goes on night and d&y. AYhen members of a patrol party of tlio Harbour Board visited tho Glasgow 'Wharf early yesterday morning they found a bundle of shavings and sticks of wood heapod up against one of tlio sheds on tho wharf, already for- 1 lighting,' -.but from appearances tho person who had built it had been interrupted in his work. Two loaded ball cartridges were also found near tlio boiidbd store on tho Queen's ■Wharf. ' . Littlo red pieces of paper pasted up all over the town with LW.W. printed In bold black letters at tho tap would seoitt to. indicate that there some' l members of' the American' institution known as the Industrial Workers Of til# World busy ill Wellington at tho present time. Tho Wholesale Storenien's Union will hold an urgent meeting in the Trades llall on Wednesday, October 559, at 8 p.m. Tho secretary desires that all storemen, not necessarily members of the union, should attend, ns the business directly concerns the strike, and as every one is aliected the meeting will allow nil concerned to hear certain proposals which are to bo submitted.

Approached last evening to see "if jio had anything to say respecting the action of the strikers in breaking down tlio gate of tlio Basin Reserve and holding a mass mooting iboje without permission, the Mayor (Mr. J. 11.I 1 . Luke) said that lie would rather say nothing at tho ureaeut juncture.

As fai- as is known, there are now* about six steamers in tho stream waiting to bo discharged. These vessels including tho Koniata, which was on board about 2200 tons of AYestport coal: ; tho Wairuna, with about 3000 tons o.r : Newcastle coal; tho I'oho.raa, with about 1500 tons of Westport coal: tlio Ngahere, with about 1200 tons of coalj t-hs Hereulesj with 500,000 ft. of jorra.il timber for Wellington. Tho Shaw. Savill liuor Corinthic will arrive from London, via Hobart to- ■. day, and she has on board about 5000 tans of general'cargo for Now Zealand ports. . '

Tho collier ICaiapni is also lying in the stream, with some 300 tons of eemcnt from Island waiting to bo discharged. It is quite probable' that tho Komativ will bo sent'on to Auckland to dis-> charge her coal there. Tito Gaiiopus, with 1700 tons, lias been sent direct to the northern; port from. Westport. Under tho present, conditions the Westport Coal' Company are sending., the' .coal-laden steamers from Westport on\ . 'to the northern ports instead of Wei' lington. _ . . When the Mauhganui arrived at Lyttelton from Melbourne on Thursday last she transhipped about ?4 tons of; ■ cargo'to the., Maori for; "rt'cHrngton, ill ■ order to allow of the former vessel, leaving Wellington for Sydneyup to .time . on Friday last. Tlio Maori arrived inport on Saturday morning, ".with transhipments ex.tlio Maungamiij but ow« " . ing' to tho announcement that no carga was to l)e -irorked,- '.tho vessel was. obliged to take the cargo back to Lyt- r telton on Saturday night. It is under J stood that. all tlio passengers' heavy. ■ baggage in . tho vessel's holds liad to remain there Jiiid ; bo, returned to tlia Southern port. It was reported last night , that an attempt'was going to bo. made to set fire to this. Harbour Board's E shed, tit addition :to tlio patrols,. * therefore, Mr. Munrb,,- tho. wharfinger,_, had shed fully illuminated, stationed extra men inside and'Outs'ido, and had all the fire - hoses ,at tlift various sheds, and. ~■' wharves coupled up, and Rot ready for immediate' action. SOCIALIST LECTURE. ■ An address was delivered bjr Mr. -' . Scott Bennett, "of Auckland, in tha> Opera House last night, ■under the avis J pices of tlio Social Democratic party. The subject of tho lecture was "The Causes of. Strikes," but only inoicfontaJj. icferonco was made to the ■ strike of' ■ •' watersidefs..'.. The addMsss was merely;.: an exposition of tho creed of the revolu-. tiomiry Socialists'. ° The building was crowded. The most startling utter-. anco was made not by Mr. Bennett, but by the chairman., Mr. Fraser, who advised all workers in "Wellington to talcd : a day off on Tuesday,, go down to tlio wharves, and prevent "by any mcauB 1 ' freo worlters from handling cargo.